Mean minded? What the heck is that? Paranoid? Not really. I see the general government not as a manufacturer of black helicopters but one that slowly creeps into our lives more every day. Pessimistic? Hardly. I see a hope for our Republic yet we must give up certain 'rights', one namely the 17th Amendment, and return the power to the states where it belongs. Having a bunch of sheep vote for Senators based on 30 second blurbs without knowing the stance of said Senators is the ignorant move.
I see a vision of this nation with a government that has specific laid out powers. Seems to me the Founders of this nation did as well. The rest of the powers were reserved for the states, but we had a war over that didn't we? You Hamiltonians, Whigs, 'compassionate' Republicans, apparently know better than the rest of us. You know we need a strong centralized government to 'take care' of the general public, when in fact the very Constitution you pretend to observe and protect rallies against this ever happening as it did in Great Britain over 200 years ago